Check ejecting mechanism



28, w L PADEN CHECK EJECTI NG MECHANISM Filed May 29, 1930 3Sheets-Sheet l [N V ATTOR Ma /mm oeonardcl (701 A TTORA y Feb. 28, 1933.w. L. PADEN CK EJECTING MECHANISM CHE '3 Sheets-Sheet Filed May 29, 193011v VENTOR [tiff/ um flour/2T7 d ackn A TTORNE Y :5 Sheets-Sheet a[NVENTOR A TTORNE 7 Feb. 28, 1933. w. L. PADEN CHECK EJECTING MECHANISMFiled May 29, 1950 Patented Feb. 28, 1933 a NITED:- S AT S COMPANY, OFDAYTON, 0310 oFFIcEi If I I WILLIAM. LEONARD PADEN, or DAYTON, 0310,ASSIGNOR TO 'onmns FARE, nnersrnn CHECK, VEJECTI'NG 'MEcnANismApplication filed my 29, 1930, sc mam. 457,2225

In machines which issue checks or re ceipts, the check issuing mechanismhas not always proved satisfactory. In most such machines if the checkis not removed before a second check is issued, serious consequences mayresult, by reason of the; fact that the a first check may prevent thesuccessful issnance of the second check.

'Infsuch instances, it is frequently foundthat the check ejectingmechanism becomes clogged which may render the entire machineinoperative. The object of this invention is to provide r means wherebythecheck is ejected with con 'siderable force andyet is retained by acheck holding mechanism in such a'positionthat succeeding checks willnotsbe'stopped. other object of the invention is to provlde meanswhereby a large number of checks may be issued without removing samefrom the machine, and so that the checks which have been issued willnotinterfere with the checks being issued. v Y

Figure 1 is a side elevational view of a register of the type shown inthe application check holding mechanism Inthe drawings I have shown acrank handle 1 which is secured to a gear 2 mounted on a stud 8. Thegear 2 meshes with, and drives a gear 4 connected to aGeneva gear 5.which intermittently drives a Geneva pinion 6 which meshes withandidrives a pinion 8. The pinion 6 is secured to .a stud 7. The pinion8 is rigidly secured to a shaft 9. Mounted on shaft 9 is anelectro-plate 10.

A feed roller 11 is mounted on;a shaft 12 and is normally in contactwith the electroplate 10. The gears is provided with a wrist pin 13which is connected to a wrist pin :14 by means of a pitman 1'5. Thewrist pin strip after it 14 anchored to an oscillating printingcarrier'16, pivoted on a shaft 17. The printing carrier 16-is providedwith a shaft218, on

which is rotatably mounted platen '20." i

The base 19 of the machine is provided with upstanding lugs 21011whichlare'pivot ed brackets 22 which carry shaft 23 on which iszmounteda supply paper roll 24. The ,2

strip of 4 paper 25- from the said roll, passes upwardly over the platen20 and between the electro-plate 10 and feed roll 11, from whencevit.passes through an opening 26 in the, fixed knife 27, 'whichopening isjust abovethe movable knife 28. The movable knife '28 may be. operatedby any suitable means notshowinso as torsever the paper opening;

The gears 1 and 5' are mounted ona shaft 29 to which is anchored at itsother end a disk 30 provided with a V shaped cutaway -has passedthrough" the said portion 3h The side frame 32 is provided with a stud33 havingahead 34 serving as a guide for the lower end of a bar. 35. The

said bar35 is bifurcatedat its lower end toreceive the said stud-33 andto be guided thereby. The bar 35 is bifurcated atits up+ per end, whichbifurcation receives a stud' 36 having a head3'7, which studfis mountedon a plate 38 secured to the side frame 32. Theplate 38 carries a vpin39 and the bar 35 carries a pin 40 which pins are connected by a helicalspring 41. The upper end of the bar '35 is provided with-a bifurcatedarm 42 I which-receives a crank pin 43 mounted on a lever 44, looselymounted on a bar carried'by the. side walls of the machine. The I lever44 extends beyond the bar 45 'and is connected to awplate 46 which atits far end is anchored to a plate 47 havingits journal. on a bar 45.

The. plate 46 is provided with two depending arms v48 whichnormallyextend downwardly and slightly forwardly,':

andare then'bent at 49so as to extend-al most straight downward and areagain bent v at 50 so as'to 'formv'extensions 51which pro- 7 jectdownwardly and forwardly; Theses ceipttlforwardly after it "has beensevered.

I arms, 4:8, are'kicker Tarmsto project the re- 7 V. r hio o Asthe tcket passes through the-knife,q1tf

strikes the lower edge ofa plate 52 secured to a door 53 hinged to thebase plate by means of a hinge 54. The lower edge of the plate 52extends slightly downwardly from the rear to the front, andapproximately at the point where it contacts with the door 53 it isprovided with a downwardly extending ofiset portion 55 adapted todeflect the forward end of the receipt downward. The door 53 is providedwith an opening 56 and below the opening a plate 57 is secured to theinner side of the said door. Plate 58 is secured to a flange 59 carriedon the outer portion of the door 53 just above the opening 56. A plate60 is hinged at 61 to the outer face of the door just below the opening56. j a

' In operation, the ticket strip 25is fed forwardly by Il16t11S"Of thesaid roller 11 and electro-plate 10, and afterits feeding movement iscomplete, the knife severs same from the remainder of the strip. Whileit was fed forwardly and before being severed, the front end oftheticket strip was guided by the lower edge of the plate52, and engagedthe offset 5 5'whi ch bent the forward edge of the paper downwardly. Asshown in Figure 3, when the knife'severs 'the receipt or check, its rearend moves upwardly as shown in dotted lines in Figure 3, so that itsrear. end is engaged by the extensions 51 of the kicker arms 48. At. theend of the operation of the machine, the shaft 29 has away portion 31'isimmediately above the pin 62 carried by an arm 63 anchored to the bar35. The spring 41 now moves the bar 35 upwardly so that the pin 62projects into and means to engage the elevated end of the I wardly.

4. In a check ejecting mechanism, an arm, a receptacle, hinged platesforming one wall of the receptacle, and means to cause said arm toengage a check and snap the check forwardly into the receptacle.

5. In a check ejecting mechanism, a rotatable disk provided with a slot,a bar, a pin carried by'said bar, said slot being so posi' tioned onsaid disk as to be adjacent said pin when the disk completes itsrotation, means whereby the said pin is held on the periphery of saiddisk while the machine is being operated and isprojected into said slotwhen the slot is brought adjacent to said pin, and means actuated bysaidbar to kick out a check when the said pin passes into the said slot.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WVILLIAM LEONARD PADEN.

' completed its rotation and the 'V shaped cutthe V shaped cutawayportion 31 of the disk 1 30 and this upward movement of the bar 35 snapsthe outer end of the lever .44 upwardly, thereby propelling the kickerarms 48 forwardly so as to eject the receipt or ticket with considerableforce into the receptacle 64, which receptacle is formed be-- tween theplates 58 and 60. The receipt drops, by gravity, so as to lie on top ofthe plate 60 so that it will be out of the way of a succeeding receiptor ticket.

I recognize the fact that receptacles for tickets are old butI believethat I am the first to have invented a machine that has a snap actionfor the ejection of the tickets or receipts. I realize that many changesmay be made in the specific form of the invention, which is disclosed byway of'illustration in the annexed drawings and described in thisapplication, without departing from the spirit of the invention, and Idesire to claim the same broadly, except as I may limit my 7 self in theannexed claims. a

I claim j 1. In a check ejecting mechanism, means to bend the forwardendof the check downwardly so as to elevate the rear end thereof,

